Last month I took a step out of my comfort zone and did something I had never done before.... Along with 80 other artists, I drew in front of a crowd for an hour to raise money for free education programs at the Portland Art Museum. Although my hands shook terribly for the first 15 minutes, I eventually settled in my groove and made 6 drawings.

Here's a few other artists I started following after the event! (I was too nervous during the event to talk to anyone) The rest of the artists can be found here at the museums event page.

At the time that I made these prints, I was on the verge of my sixth move in five years. Everything I owned was in boxes and I was hyper-aware of the amount of junk I kept lugging around. These were an expression of some of that frustration.

The blue and gold are screen printed and the ghosts above were painted with ink wash.

As I was already deep in the midst of two days worth of photo documentation and editing, I decided to take a few good shots of some of my sketchbook pages I like.

I've gotten in a really bad habit of not using my sketchbook lately, I have been working through a drawing rut and pretty much exclusively working in a stitched together book of newsprint. Trying to get out of the headspace that I'm "wasting" paper.